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Developer Engagement Lead

Datadog
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New York, NY$139k - $164kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Developer growth role within the Product org focused on listening, engaging, and expanding Datadog’s presence in developer communities and channels.

Responsibilities

  • Build our developer listening and engagement system. Create the tooling and workflows to monitor conversations about Datadog, our products, our competitors, and the problems developers are trying to solve across Reddit, Hacker News, Discord, GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.
  • Turn monitoring into action. Build a process for identifying conversations worth joining, determining when Datadog should respond, and routing questions or feedback to the right engineer, PM, DevRel, support, or product expert.
  • Own our developer channels. Run @datadogdevs on X and Datadog Developers on LinkedIn, including publishing, engagement, replies, and experimentation.
  • Expand where Datadog participates. Establish and grow our presence in places where developers already spend time.
  • Make Datadog more responsive. Define response guidelines, escalation paths, ownership models, and expectations so developer conversations don’t disappear into screenshots and Slack threads.
  • Participate directly. Know when to respond as Datadog, pull in an expert, or have an engineer answer under their own name.
  • Create feedback loops into Product. Surface recurring questions, pain points, objections, and emerging conversations to Product, Engineering, and other teams.
  • Get more technical voices into the conversation. Enable engineers, PMs, researchers to participate directly in developer conversations.
  • Turn shipped work into conversations. Bring releases, changelogs, demos, events, and engineering work into developer conversations.
  • Build measurement that matters. Define metrics beyond follower counts (e.g., conversations joined, response coverage, sentiment, trials, signups).
  • Run experiments. Test platforms, formats, tooling, workflows, and engagement programs with clear hypotheses and readouts.

Qualifications

  • You understand how developers behave online.
  • You’ve built an audience, community, engagement program, developer program, or similar function, and can point to outcomes you changed.
  • You have strong judgment about when a company should join a conversation and when it shouldn’t.
  • You are naturally curious and proactive in understanding relevant discussions.

Skills

Required:Platform and channel management
Nice to have:Developer social listening and community-monitoring systems

Benefits

  • Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
  • best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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